Today it is estimated that at least the 20% of the messages we send contains at least one emoticon or emoji in its content. These have become a very fun and practical way to express our emotions or describe an action or activity that we are doing.
The creators of communication applications have been responsible for integrating more and more of these to their applications that makes its use even more tempting. In this post we will teach you how to differentiate emojis, emoticons and faces and how to integrate them into your texts.
What is the meaning of emojis, WhatsApp emoticons and faces?
Within the active WhatsApp community, each emoji has a meaning or represents something. Even though some are quite obvious, others simply Get a meaning according to the text. or to the attached image.
WhatsApp app updates have been commissioned add emojis that beautifully describe most of the feelings that we may suffer or common situations that we are going through.
One of the examples of emojis that we can find in the WhatsApp application are the personalized emojis of faces that have hearts instead of clearly reflecting eyes the feeling of love, another is the emoji of a boy on a bicycle that describes a man doing this activity.
The purpose of these emojis is to beautifully convey feelings and situations in the most graphic way possible so that in this way we can communicate in the most expressive way possible, and enables us to show emotions, activities and objects more similar to reality to complement our messages and give them more emotion and intensity.
How to send emojis, emoticons and faces via WhatsApp?
When installing the WhatsApp application on our PC, on our smartphones or tablets, comes with a pack of emojis and faces included. Which we can make use of in a conversation with any of our added contacts that also have this WhatsApp Messenger application installed.
It is easy to locate all the emojis and faces that are available in all versions of the WhatsApp application, for that we just have to enter the application, go to the chat of the person with whom we want to share the emojis or faces, unfold the device keyboard, we locate the icon of the face that refers to the emojis, then from here we can select the one we want to send.
Emojis and faces are grouped by a specific classification, there are the emojis of people or objects that we use regularly, next to him are those of animals and nature, here are the emojis of a wide variety of animals and flowers of various kinds, then follow the food and meal emoji group, here we find a great variety of fruits and foods that we usually eat.
Then there is the group of sports emojis, physical activities and objects that are commonly used in them, like balls, tennis racquets, among others. Then there is the group of car emojis and two more categories that can be said to be random emojis, and in short the group of country flags.
What is the difference between emojis and emoticons?
These figures, or representations thereof, are often used to express a state of mind, A situation, objects, among others. They all have the same purpose and is to replace the words and make our texts more fun. Certainly, even when we think they are the same, there are differences between them.
The difference between these is how they look and how they are made. We can make emoticons perform from the union of different symbols that we find in our basic keyboard so that they look like the expression of a face that represents an emotion or something, What “: O” that simulates a surprised face or “<3" que parece un corazón horizontal.
Instead of emojis are more realistic and they are made on the basis of other programs and are regularly included in some of the messaging apps like WhatsApp; And of course you can use them in all your social networks to boost interaction.
